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| Title: | Re-Negotiating the Marital Power Structure: The Case of Inter-Racial/Ethnic Marriages in Zimbabwe |
| Author: | Galvin, Treasa |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Zambezia (ISSN 0379-0622) |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 125-146 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | mixed marriage Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Ethnic and Race Relations Cultural Roles Marital Relations and Nuptiality sociology Intermarriage Cultural environment Social and cultural anthropology |
| External link: | https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_284 |
| Abstract: | Marriage and family types are socially and culturally specific. Migration exposes a marital relationship to a new normative order. The present study looks at changes in the internal dynamics of marital relationships when marriages are relocated to a changed sociocultural environment, focusing on the link between spousal access to household resources and conjugal power relationships as reflected in the marital decisionmaking process. The research group consisted of 46 couples formed by interracial or interethnic marriage between a Zimbabwean and a foreign national who had relocated from the foreign spouse's society or a 'third' society to Zimbabwe. Research was conducted in Zimbabwe from October 1985 to September 1987 and involved in-depth interviews which provided qualitative data on domestic organization and marital behaviour and the changes which had occurred in both since the couples moved to Zimbabwe. Women were the key informants. For the research couples relocation meant a process of transition and change to a new normative order, with subsequent changes in spousal resources and decisionmaking patterns and the structure of marital power. The outcome was a renegotiation of marital power relationships in order to avoid conflict in marriage, and to differentiate clearly between the marital power structure and that of the (extended) family. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |
